With the new wave of tablet devices hitting the shelves content consumers will increasingly have the choice between opting for the infrastructural defaults such as …



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Following on from Part I. The decision about which country to research is often intertwined with a choice of city as the primary research base. To …
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The prevalence of escalators at the Lei Feng pagoda in Hangzhou is the real sign of the times: reflecting in part an aging, increasingly wealthy/demanding …
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Been thinking a lot about my relationship with strangers recently – triggered by a number of unrelated threads: the death of a pedestrian on Sunset …
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Train across the Tibetan Plateau – being out in remoter climes makes for a good place to test mapping software. Unsurprisingly this is not a …
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Sometimes project goals suggest particularly extensive travel – either driven by the need to have on the ground experience of a broad spectrum of geographies, …
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Spotted on a few occasions in and around Beijing – cars with wheels protected from the bursting bladders of passing dogs. A scattergun of thoughts to …
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Straight out of college I spent 6 months signing on for unemployment benefit – breathing space before entering the job market. In the intervening years …
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